Pedro

Can’t see what good screaming would do, but whatever gets you pumped up!

It’s going to be a kickass ride report!

Made it to Tata in time for a day time beer! All rolling roads and made some progress.

That’s the thing, you get scared and you crawl along and then you burn your clutch / front digs in and spits you out / no momentum means not in control in sand. So you ride like you’re not worried about crashing so that you don’t. I was, though!

52 miles in 3c to go to work! I envy your commitment to motorcycling!

Is that the guy that’s been trying to sabotage your bikes since? Maybe either complain to husband or just accept to pay in ass, it’s not worth your life!

Two more pictures, my report will have around 450 pictures once I get proper upload speeds and time.

Also some tracks are tracks, but some proper roads used daily to get to places are not surfaced or with such neglected surface that you wish they weren’t. So just get a michelin map if you ever comethis way and I’ll point you to where you want to go. Or read my report and I’ll post town names. Forget about proper gps and turn by turn navigation unless for cities and finding hotels. Don’t spread it around though, from what I’ve seen my favourite parts are mostly ignored by Morocco travellers in other forums, and it’s good that way Today I ended up not leaving Merzouga afterall, and spent the morning riding around, I’m quite happy at having ridden through oueds with fesh fesh and soft sand and not even having had to stop or use the clutch except to change gears. I’m feeling like Stephane Peterhansel on my dusty boots. Also rode next to camels, had birds come rest on my bike, and was invited for tea by some miners up in a hill. The GS is great for this afterall, and I enjoyed ridingthrough stuff I wasn’t able before. Two picture upload, that’s taken fore

They just make sense when you want to get from town to town, I don’t know. I use google maps like I would a paper map with a lot of definition, but if you want a safer way buy Chris Scott’s book, I looked over it the other way and some of the routes he recommends are roads that just make sense if you look at the Michelin map and choose the less fast and more twisty scenic roads.

I was conned, done dirty, bamboozled!

That’s quite a good thing to remember.

On soft sand it’ll stand by itself unless it’s windy.

It’s pretty obvious in this picture Pete

No, i did have a piss there but in the middle of nowhere looking at the horizon. But not against the wind!

Here’s another one Not posting more fotos, this just took minutes to upload and I’m not climbing the dune to get more signal. It’s freezing now so will have hot mint tea.

A shared sleeping bag makes sense in that situation. And other situations too

No

I agree, although am a bit disapointed that nobody noticed something that I love in some of the more sandy pictures.

I will elaborate further on the report, but I am both happy at the riding I did today, and not doing that tomorrow with my luggage. So even though today was a win, and it felt amazing riding a few sections of soft sand with no major issues, I will be saving my luggage and taking the tarmac tomorrow. I am also now friends with Ibrahim, the guy making the road that’s going to replace this piste in the future. And I also got an expensive urge, that I will not speak off until it happens, hopefully it’ll disappear by itself.

Will just leave this here because this afternoon it’ll be a pain to upload pictures. Today I’m busy being being fucking awesome and riding on the same piste I was worried about yesterday. No luggage and a little less fuel make all the difference!

It’s all good on road, I meant look at the tracks offroad between them, it’s less than half the distance going through Ramlia for example. That’s what I’ll see about doing.

Also I don’t want a guide. Those guys know their stuff but I’d rather take the tarmac than following a moped that doesn’t get stuck but is also too slow for my bike to cope. Won’t do 100km in second gear

The bike can do it, for sure, but: It’s better to lower tire pressures, I won’t because the desert is rocky as hell and I want unbroken wheels. I don’t have the confidence to go as fast as needed on sand, but I will search instruction and get that confidence. I had intended on a crossing between Taouz (near Merzouga) and Mhamid (Zagora), if you want to check on google maps. Most of that is easy hardish ground that I have no problems with, but there’s a stretch of a few kms of sand that can be problematic more so if alone. Tomorrow I’ll ask around someone that is not trying to sell me a guide before finally taking the tarmac. I will give the first bit of the cross a try in the morning to have a little fun. Getting a very heavy bike stuck in the sand somewhere with no service is a good way to get yourself dead, or to ruin a good bike getting out of trouble. I’ll see tomorrow. I did have a blast sailing through shorter 30 meter bits of soft sand on set pistes though, 4th gear me made feel like a hero (a nervous hero). It’s when you have to slow and turn and do things it gets tricky

My beard is sort of reddish but my hair was always very dark, except in very sunny days I rather prefer no hair, though. Even if it grew back I would continue to trim it short.